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Twitter is jumping with some awful high enthusiasm over this right now!

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mitch levy @kjrmitch Tomorrow is going to be a very good day for sports fans in the northwest who crave the return of the NBA!
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Oh please, please make this happen! For both NBA and NHL!

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This is why I wish we lived in a dictatorship....a dictatorship run by people who like sports.


LMAO!!!! I want a dictatorship run by people who like drugs and free hookers! And Sports!

what he said ^ :th2thumbs: Free hookers RULE! 8)

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I don't want Sacramento to get railroaded the way Seattle did, i want to see them get every fair chance they can, if it comes down to them being jobbed the way Seattle did then i don't want it and wont watch them. then there is the evil slimy piece of crap who runs the nba who makes me sick every time i see him speak.

I would LOVE to see us get the Sonics back and a NHL team, just do it the right way and don't shaft other city's the way we got screwed.

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I don't want Sacramento to get railroaded the way Seattle did, i want to see them get every fair chance they can, if it comes down to them being jobbed the way Seattle did then i don't want it and wont watch them. then there is the evil slimy piece of crap who runs the nba who makes me sick every time i see him speak.

I would LOVE to see us get the Sonics back and a NHL team, just do it the right way and don't shaft other city's the way we got screwed.


Sacramentos been dealing with this for 6 years. If that isn't fair, then what is? NBA has basically set up an embassy there to help. They've had their chance. This is the way the game is, we gotta okiedoke another city, they should be mad at the NBA not us.

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I don't want Sacramento to get railroaded the way Seattle did, i want to see them get every fair chance they can, if it comes down to them being jobbed the way Seattle did then i don't want it and wont watch them. then there is the evil slimy piece of crap who runs the nba who makes me sick every time i see him speak.

I would LOVE to see us get the Sonics back and a NHL team, just do it the right way and don't shaft other city's the way we got screwed.


Sacramentos been dealing with this for 6 years. If that isn't fair, then what is? NBA has basically set up an embassy there to help. They've had their chance. This is the way the game is, we gotta okiedoke another city, they should be mad at the NBA not us.


Yea, they've been giving them mouth-to-mouth resuscitation for years, and have been met with nothing but apathy. Only now, when a move is imminent do they react. They've been more than fair to Sacramento.

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And Sacramento can drive less than an hour to Oakland and get their nba fix.


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Cool fair enough, I've ignored the nba since the Sonics left so I'm not really up to date on whats been going on.

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When the Sonics left I was out of state on some military training that required a lot of time and attention. That, combined with the fact that I have never really followed the NBA too closely, this is how I found out about the Sonics leaving:

Me (looking at sports page basketball scores): Oklahoma City? They have a team now?

Friend: Yeah, where have you been?

Me: Wait, where are the Sonics?

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News about it today at two! Woohoo!

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Sweet NBA/NHL. Hansen wants the NBA and will work to get it here.

But once the arena is official, no matter the owner of the team, I'm thinking its a given that the NHL lands in Seattle - they'd almost force their way in. Seattle would balance the conference, have a natural rival, not be an outpost, theres an appetite for hockey as there is 5 or so WHL teams that succeed in the northwest.The NHL will jump at the chance to move a sunbelt team North. The players are from northern climates and would be happy in Seattle and fit right in the community with their off-ice class and shaggy beards.


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I miss the Sonics and GP is my all-time favorite NBA player but I miss them and was tore up about it more than anything because they were one of our teams, representing Seattle and the NW and they were our oldest pro team. I've never really been a big NBA fan, just followed because of the Sonics. I am much more into College Bball and the tourney, and mainly the tourney. So I'd be much more pumped about an NHL team when it comes down to it.


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#NHL commish Gary Bettman: "There’s probably good potential for Seattle as a hockey market, but we are not looking to relocate ... (cont.)"

Bettman, continued: " ... and we’re not looking to expand." He said that today to a group of Chicago reporters.

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"Report: AHL owner interested in bringing NHL to Seattle
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David Shoalts of The Globe and Mail reports that Don Levin — owner of the AHL’s Chicago Wolves — has expressed interest in an NHL franchise for Seattle.

Levin told Shoalts that if hedge-fund manager Chris Hansen is successful in building an arena in Seattle and bringing back an NBA team, he’d be willing to get involved on the NHL front."

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http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012 ... o-seattle/

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Looks like Paul Allens cool with it.

LETS FREAKIN GET IT!

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This is a great proposal - way better than I'd hoped! Awesome news for Seattle!

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Levine has been tweeting the big points, and it sounds like an awesome deal for the city

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500M private funding, 200M from the public, which would be payed back in a self funded way. No new taxes. Thats the huge part IMO.

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